Psychiatric aspects of brain tumors: A review

Table 7 Brain tumors and miscellaneous symptoms[41]

Ref.	Psychiatric symptoms	Tumor location	Tumor type	Remarks
Feng et al[20], 2013	Anomic aphasia	Left temporal lobe	Glioblastoma multiforme	No resolution of aphasia after surgical treatment
Hoffmann et al[117], 2012	Crying, spitting, biting self and others, mutism, withdrawal, sleepiness, anergia, bipolar affective disorder	Pituitary gland	Craniopharyngioma	No resolution of symptoms after surgery
Wong et al[118], 2012	Attacks of sensory overload and unusual familiarity	Left temporal lobe	Epidermoid tumor
Rosenzweig et al[119], 2010	Epilepsy, paroxysmal ictal phonemes	Left superior temporal gyrus	Angiocentric glioma grade I	Resolution of symptoms after surgery
Tsutsumi et al[21], 2008	Abnormal laughter, left-hemiparesis	Right frontal lobe	Glioblastoma multiforme	Resolution of psychiatric symptoms after surgical treatment
Sokolski et al[120], 2003	Breakthrough manic symptoms with mild nausea and dizzy spells, daily derealisation episodes with olfactory auras	Right medial temporal, displacing right ventricle and right hippocampus	Grade IV invasive astrocytoma	Improvement of psychiatric symptoms with surgical resection
Burns et al[121], 2003	New-onset pedophilia	Right orbito-frontal	Unknown
Daigneault et al[122], 1999	Aggression, precocious puberty and worsening seizures	Hypothalamic	Hamartoma
Konovalov et al[123], 1998	Korsakoff’s syndrome	Third ventricle	Colloid cyst	Complete resolution after surgical removal
Caplan et al[124], 1992	Intractable seizures followed by coprolalia, compulsive behaviors, aphasia	Left anterior temporal	Ganglionoma	Symptoms subsided after surgical resection
Ko et al[57], 1989	Expressive aphasia, short-term memory difficulties, no focal neurologic signs	Multiple metastatic left fronto-parietal lesions	Origin in right lung
Ko et al[57], 1989	Deteriorating memory and disorientation to time and place, behavioral changes, visual agnosia, aphasia, self-neglect	Left parietal extending to temporal lobe with midline shift	Unknown-surgery refused- no autopsy report given
Ribeiro et al[125], 1989	Bonnet syndrome, blindness	Posterior parasagittal	Meningioma
Durst et al[126], 1988	Koro	Corpus callosum	Lipoma or dermoid tumor
Binder[96], 1983	Behavioral changes, confusion with neurological signs developing after 24 h	Left thalamic	Glioblastoma multiforme
de Bures et al[127], 1982	Aggressive behavior, cognitive impairment on background of chronic alcohol abuse and head injuries	Left temporal	Astrocytoma

Adapted from Trends in Brain Cancer Research. New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc., 2006.